My journey to south-eastern Peninsular Malaysia

[kuching]

Day 2 (June 1st, 2006) 1st location : a stream & swamp of northern Kota Tinggi area.






Nemacheilus selangoricus






Goby.






Pangio shelfordii.

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Millipede is grazing on the mosses.






Butterfly. (Paralaxita sp.)






Praying mantis.







Most probably Crypt. cordata var. cordata.








Crypt. nurii.








Sungai Johor.






Sungai Johor.

[MrTree]

What does the expert says?

Oh, you got macro lens?

[kuching]

What does the expert says?

Oh, you got macro lens?

I think the expert is on vacation, no reply yet. You didn't see that green Barclaya before? It's growing next to Barclaya motleyi, not far from Crypt schulzei site....at a forest reserve area.


I don't have macro lens, but my camera got macro mode. I cropped some pictures so that can see the closer view of the object.

[MrTree]

Never interested in anything above water except orchid and pitcher.

[kuching]

DAY 2- second location. A dirt road cutting across the rainforest of Johor....we found out a lot of jungle streams & freshwater swamps. As we're running out of time, we only explored 1 of the streams.







The jungle stream:







Azmi found a patch of Crypt. nurii.









Forest halfbeak (Hemirhamphodon pogonognathus)

[kuching]

Trigonostigma heteromorpha.







Catfish. (Leiocassis sp.)






Catfish. (Silurichthys sp.)









Catfish. (Mystus sp.)

[juggler]

Blyxa sp. (first time seeing such a Blyxa....if u look carefully, the leaf is very slender!!!)

Looks like Blyxa aubertii to me. Right?
Sorry - I only know B.japonica and B.aubertii.

[hwchoy]

for all we know there may be several undescribed blyxa species.

[ranmasatome]

That praying mantis looks interesting...

[budak]

can ID this bug??

[ranmasatome]

Yup.. sure can...well.. actually not too sure..cos i cant really see the face..
I presume its really small? looks like some sort of winged aphid but the wings are not characteristic of the normal aphid wings (not a simple vein structure). Also the antenna looks way different. However, if you got a shot of the face it would be much eaiser.. currently i just guess its in psocoptera with a lot of doubt because of the antennas. might also be some hemipteran/homopteran.
Are those blury things antenna and a long proboscius? Also this is from the trip ya? if not, considered hijacking leh.

[kuching]

Yup.. sure can...well.. actually not too sure..cos i cant really see the face..
I presume its really small? looks like some sort of winged aphid but the wings are not characteristic of the normal aphid wings (not a simple vein structure). Also the antenna looks way different. However, if you got a shot of the face it would be much eaiser..
Are those blury things antenna and a long proboscius? Also this is from the trip ya? if not, considered hijacking leh.

Yup, Budak was with me that day at the peat swamp of Pahang where he found that strange bug.

[kuching]

Got the ID for that Barclaya is Barclaya rotundifolia .

[ranmasatome]

actually might be a delphacidae depending on what the head looks like.. that antenna is throwing me off.. nice insect though.

[budak]

Might it be something in Derbidae?

[MrTree]

Got the ID for that Barclaya is Barclaya rotundifolia .

wait a minute, the flower belongs to this B.rotundifolia? Seems it's growing together the submersed ones.

[kuching]

wait a minute, the flower belongs to this B.rotundifolia? Seems it's growing together the submersed ones.

Yes. U didn't notice the colour is white? B. motleyi does not have white coloured flower.

[kuching]

DAY 2 - 3rd location is a beautiful river located in the north-eastern Johor.






This river is really really amzing....got so many aquatic plants growing in this river.....got very large population of Crypt. cordata var. cordata....amazing!!! Hope I got water proof camera so that I can take the underwater photography.





Crypt. cordata var. cordata.








Anyone knows what species of this aquatic plants?







After that we're heading to the homeland of Betta tomi, but the bad weather was moving in, so we postponed the fishing trip to tomorrow.





....continued tomorrow.

[ranmasatome]

Might it be something in Derbidae?

Well...its probable.. but i cant see the head leh..
still those antennas are huge for a derbid.

Mike.. very nice location.. think that plant should be a sort of utricularia sp.. Wonderful how it grows like taht among the crypts..